Former Delegate Frank Hall, who represented parts of South Richmond and Northern Chesterfield County from 1976 to 2009, has died at age 76.

Hall served as Minority Leader for the House Democrats from 2002-2007.

He was appointed by then Governor Tim Kaine to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shortly after his retirement. Former Governor Bob McDonnell removed Hall from the Board in 2010. In 2014 Governor McAuliffe appointed him to the VCU Board of Visitors.

Hall was the Founder of Commonwealth Bank and a partner in the law firm Hall & Hall with his wife Phoebe.

Virginia’s Secure Commonwealth Panel is now expected to issue recommendations on the implementation of police body cameras in August 2015.

Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety Brian Moran want’s uniform guidelines for the implementation of body cameras as well as other surveillance technologies used by law enforcement, such as dashboard cameras and license plate readers.

It’s unclear whether funding will be available to assist all localities in paying for the cameras should they wish to use them. They are already in use in Henrico and Chesterfield.

As kids across the commonwealth are taking the SOL’s, Virginia’s Secretary of Education Anne Holton is sharing the work the state has done so far to improve the tests and asking educators what more work can be done to make them even better.

While Virginia eliminated 5 of the tests last year, Secretary Holton says the SOLs remain especially stressful for elementary students and should be shortened.

A joint effort by the Federal Trade Commission and 58 law enforcement offices from every state was announced today (May 19) to charge four cancer charities with $187 million in consumer fraud, possibly the largest such case in U.S. history.

The charities promised to deliver medication, treatment and hospice services to cancer patients but instead pocketed the money, leaving less than 1% of donations to their cause.

A bill patroned by Republican Senator John Cornyn to crack down on human trafficking is headed to President Obama’s desk. Virginia’s 3rd District Cogressman Bobby Scott issued a statement yesterday (5/19) explaining why he voted no.

Scott says the bill unnecessarily expands mandatory minimum sentencing, which discriminate against minorities, waste money and fail to reduce crime. The legislation requires a 10-15 year sentence for trafficking.